What games do you play on your phone?

There's so much crap out there that it's hard to wade through it all.

I've been playing Hopeless (on Android) for a little while - any other good recommendations?

I have a lot of games that I can tell you to steer clear of

Unfortunately most mobile games are shameless pay2win in app purchase pushers or just lack proper controls/gameplay elements to be worthy of extended time. It also kind of depends on what you are trying to find. Do you just want something you can flip on while waiting in your dentist's lobby for 15 mins or are you looking for an engrossing experience and trying to use your phone in lieu of a nintendo 3ds or a laptop? Cus for me it's only the former, so that kind of taints me as well since I am not looking for a really great 50 hour game on my phone.

But here's some I have played on iphone.

Great little war game - this one is decent enough. It's kind of like advance wars but simpler. I got great big war game on steam really cheap and liked it a lot. Sadly the ios one has far less features like no aoe damage which really dumbs down the gameplay. It's ok.

Galaxy on fire 2 - This one was a good space sim that suffered from terrible controls. I died on the easiest settings on like the 3rd mission cus the controls sucked so badly. If you have like a controller or something for your phone this one might be great. Reminds me vaguely of old x-wing games.

Braveland - This one is very cool until you realized it's a super dumbed down version of homm. Literally one path to take, completely linear, no leveling, no upgrades. Could've been a great game with just a tiny bit more openness added.

CivRev - Really simple civ game. It's ok for a time waster. No serious strategy elements of course.

Angry Birds - Everyone's played this by now but this game is awesome. It's every thing I want out of a mobile game, great controls, easy to use, but it's actually fun to the point I might plop down on my couch and play it for an hour to relax vs firing up the PC. It's actually fun!

Game dev story - This one was actually a lot of fun for me and worth buying. When I first picked it up it was a blast trying to unlock new game combinations and level up my staff and get a hit sale. Of course it's not realistic in the least and not much of a sim. I mean it's like impossible to lose money and you don't really do anything, just pick a game title and wait for it to be done. But I found it strangely addicting. It doesn't have replay value though cus since you don't do anything there's really no point in experiencing it again, no different paths to take really, just try to make more money I guess.

Candy crush - I have spent zero money on this game, but it's actually one of my favorite ones. If you like brick breaker type games at all give it a shot. It's really fun to play for a quick 5 min break between meetings and stuff. The randomness of it does make you question how much skill is really involved but idk, it occupies me during downtimes just fine.

Other than that I love sudoku and spider solitaire as well.

Almost exclusively Ingress. I rarely find myself playing many of the games I have (almost all free through Amazon's free app of the day or from Humble Bundles).

Game Dev Story is pretty fun for a couple playthroughs, but gets repetitive after that.

Snake.

Music Hero almost exclusively.

2048, Sudoku, and rarely Angry Birds.

I don't have a lot, I usually read news.

Tetris something. I got my first smartphone a couple weeks ago and that's what my roommate suggested. Well, it's a pretty good time waster, so I've been only playing that.

Oh... I should get a tetris app.

Trivia Crack - good fun for a while. However, the 'suggest a question' function is essentially broken
Pudding Monsters HD - lots of fun. It manages to strike a good balance between hard and fun.
Plague Inc - Lots of fun. Too many features are pay-only though.
Star Command - Also fun but at least when I first got it, half of the game wasn't finished. It had lots of planets in-game but you couldn't actually go to them because they were all 'coming soon'. Haven't played in a while.
Tiny Death Star - Fun but it becomes a tedious clickfest later in the game and if you don't spend real cash, your death star finally stalls out
Minesweeper - what needs to be said about this classic?

I don't play any single one consistently for very long.

I had Monuments Valley and I really liked it. However, there is a persistent update error that it keeps getting where every single day (multiple times a day sometimes) the Amazon app tells me there is an update available but then fails to actually update it. So I finally un-installed the game, but the update problem persists.

As I was typing this I realized I just needed to turn off all notifications on the Amazon App lol.

Minesweeper is the best.

I haven't found any version since Windows XP that felt quite...right, including the one in the Windows app store.

Actually picked up a new game... Simple Planes. 3D flight sim basically. Build your own plane however you like and try to fly it. It's no arcade, has center of thrust, mass and lift just like KSP.

I think I'll buy Simple Rockets too.

All right, I've recently played through the games by inkle Studios at the recommendation of a friend, and I whole-heartedly agree.

The Sorcery! series are probably the best mobile games I've ever played on the phone. And 80 Days is fantastic as well. All of them are both Android and iOS.

A little more expensive than most mobile games at $5 a pop, but I actually didn't mind.